Sustainability & ESG
What are the three pillars of sustainability?
Environmental, Social, and Economic
He co-founded Apple in a garage with Steve Wozniak and is credited with revolutionizing the personal computer, music, and mobile phone industries.
Who is Steve Jobs?
This language is famous for its readability; this snippet prints a message to the console.
name = "World"
print(f"Hello, {name}!")
What is Python?
What does IP stand for?
Internet Protocol.
In 2012, this company replaced Google Maps as the default on its phones, leading users to melted-looking landmarks, incorrect directions, and even a police warning in Australia about a life-threatening error.
What is Apple (with Apple Maps)?
What does ESG stand for?
Environmental, Social, Governance
This Harvard dropout co-founded Microsoft and went on to become a major philanthropist through a Foundation. 💻
Who is Bill Gates?
Often used for web development, this language uses console.log for output and const to declare a constant variable.
const greeting = "Hello from the web!";
console.log(greeting);
What is JavaScript?
A device that forwards data packets between computer networks, performing the traffic directing functions on the Internet.
What is the function of a router?
This Microsoft media player was launched in 2006 to compete with the iPod. Despite some novel features like song sharing, it was too little, too late and became a classic case of a failed "iPod killer."
What is the Zune?
According to the slide deck, which company aims to be carbon negative by 2030?
Microsoft
As the creator of the World Wide Web, this British computer scientist wrote the first web browser and established the fundamental protocols for the internet as we know it.
Who is Tim Berners-Lee?
Known for its "Write Once, Run Anywhere" philosophy, this object-oriented language is verbose, as seen in its classic main method declaration.
public class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println("Hello, !");
}
}
What is Java?
Hypertext Transfer Protocol is an application protocol for distributed, collaborative, and hypermedia information systems. Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure is the secure version of HTTP, using SSL/TLS for encrypted communication.
What is HTTP and HTTPS?
This company's 2016 flagship smartphone had a "fiery" feature—a battery defect that caused dozens of the devices to overheat and combust, leading to a massive global recall and a ban on airplanes.
What is Samsung (with the Galaxy Note 7)?
What is "greenwashing" in the context of ESG challenges?
When companies overstate or misrepresent their sustainability efforts to appear more responsible than they are, which can erode trust and damage reputations.
Known for his work on the Linux kernel, this Finnish-American software engineer created an open-source operating system that now powers a vast majority of the world's servers and Android phones.
Who is Linus Torvalds?
This declarative language is used to manage and query data in relational databases.
SELECT first_name, last_name
FROM employees
WHERE department = 'IT';
What is SQL (Structured Query Language)?
A network security system that monitors and controls incoming and outgoing network traffic based on predetermined security rules, often acting as a barrier between a trusted internal network and untrusted external networks.
what is a firewall?
Released to "Explorers" for $1,500 in 2013, these smart glasses from Google were a public relations failure due to their high price, limited functionality, and major privacy concerns, earning wearers the nickname "Glassholes."
What is Google Glass?
This concept describes development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
Sustainable development
A pioneering American computer scientist and United States Navy Rear Admiral, she was one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer and developed the first compiler for a computer programming language. 👩💻
Who is Grace Hopper?
A high-performance language popular in game development and systems programming, it requires including libraries like iostream for input-output operations.
#include <iostream>
int main() {
std::cout << "Hello, C!" << std::endl;
return 0;
}
What is C++?
Physical, Data Link, Network, Transport, Session, Presentation, Application.
What are the seven layers of the OSI model?
Considered one of the worst corporate mergers in history, the 2000 fusion of this "You've Got Mail" ISP with a media giant resulted in a massive culture clash and a $99 billion loss in a single year when the dot-com bubble burst.
What was the AOL and Time Warner merger?